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WHOSE STREETS?: Last Day Thursday, July 2nd

Watch Trailer Director: Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you purchase WHOSE STREETS? you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

WHOSE STREETS? is available to purchase for $6.99, or can be bundled with I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO and TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM for $15. Proceeds from these purchases will support legal support and bail funds nationwide throughout the summer.

Click here to purchase WHOSE STREETS? for $6.99.

Click here to purchase the $15 bundle, including TONI MORRISON, WHOSE STREETS?, and I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO.

 

About the film

Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis, Missouri. Grief, long-standing racial tensions, and renewed anger bring residents together to hold a vigil and protest this latest tragedy.

Empowered parents, artists, and teachers from around the country come together as freedom fighters. As the national guard descends on Ferguson with military-grade weaponry, these young community members become the torchbearers of a new resistance.

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Running Time: 104 minutes104 MIN
R Rated
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Told from the perspective of activists, artists, and residents, Whose Streets? is a commemoration of and tribute to the humans of Ferguson.

Lovia Gyarkye
The New Republic
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TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM: Last Day Thursday, July 2nd

Watch Trailer Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Cast: Toni Morrison, Hilton Als, Oprah Winfrey

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you purchase TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM is available to purchase for $6.99, or can be bundled with I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO and WHOSE STREETS? for $15. Proceeds from these purchases will support legal support and bail funds nationwide throughout the summer. Once purchased, these films will not expire and you will have permanent access to them.

Click here to purchase TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM for $6.99.

Click here to purchase the $15 bundle, including TONI MORRISON, WHOSE STREETS?, and I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO.

 

About the film

This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, history, America and the human condition.

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Running Time: 119 MIN119 MIN
PG-13 Rated
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

[W]hen it's over, you feel like a beloved friend has left the room.

Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
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Popcorn Sidewalk Sale!

If you’re craving movie theater popcorn as much as we are this spring, we have some very exciting and appetizing news to share!

On Wednesday, June 3rd, the Athena will celebrate its 105th anniversary with a special popcorn sidewalk sale! From noon to 1PM and again from 5PM to 7PM, stop by Court Street and purchase some delicious, local Shagbark Seed & Mill popcorn and other concessions to go. On top of satisfying taste buds, proceeds will help support the theater during our current closure.

 

How To Order

 

In the days prior to the sale, customers will have the ability to order a popcorn package of their choice online and specify when they would like to pick up their concessions: either between noon and 1PM, or between 5PM and 7PM on Wednesday, June 3rd.

While visitors are welcome to walk up and purchase popcorn on-site during pickup hours, ordering online ahead of time will help limit contact and prepare our staff. We ask that when you arrive, you respect social distancing etiquette, and we also strongly encourage mask-wearing as a courtesy to our staff and to others uptown.

 

Click here to order ahead online

 

The Menu

 

◦  Boxed Popcorn – $3

◦  Bagged Popcorn – $5

◦  Add a Fountain Drink – $2

(Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Mt Dew, Root Beer, Pink Lemonade, Crush, Sierra Mist, Dr. Pepper)

◦  Add a Candy – $3

(Kit Kats, Twizzlers, M&Ms, Peanut M&Ms, Dark Twix, Raisinets, Milk Duds, Junior Mints, Reese’s Pieces, Sour Patch Kids, Mike & Ikes, Skittles, SweeTarts)

 

We hope to see you under the marquee on Wednesday!

 

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SPACESHIP EARTH: Last Day Thursday, June 11th

Watch Trailer Director: Matt Wolf

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent SPACESHIP EARTH you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Click here to purchase your ticket to stream SPACESHIP EARTH.

 

About the film

Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially reimagine a new world.

 

How to stream

For $4, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more .

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

 

 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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Running Time: 115 min115 MIN
Not Rated
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Their story, flaws and all, is a wonder to behold.

Matt Patches
Polygon
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THE BOOKSELLERS: Last Day Thursday, June 11th

Watch Trailer Director: D.W. Young

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent THE BOOKSELLERS you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Click here to purchase your ticket to stream THE BOOKSELLERS.

 

About the film

Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. THE BOOKSELLERS takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers.

 

How to stream

For $10, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more .

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

 

 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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Running Time: 99 min99 MIN
Not Rated
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Lovely and wistful. 'The Booksellers' is a documentary for anyone who can still look at a book and see a dream, a magic teleportation device, an object that contains the world.

Owen Gleiberman
Variety
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PAHOKEE: Last Day Thursday, May 28th

Watch Trailer Director: Ivete Lucas , Patrick Bresnan

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent PAHOKEE you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Click here to purchase your ticket to stream PAHOKEE.

*To benefit the Athena and reduce the price to $12, be sure to use promo code: athena

 

About the film

In an isolated town in rural Florida, four teens experience the joys and heartbreaks of their last year in high school.

Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan paint a detailed and astonishing portrait of PAHOKEE, a rural village in the Everglades, Florida. Very close-knit, its inhabitants fight to face fragile financial situations and an uncertain future. Through a precise observational approach, the film captures the daily life of this city restoring a rich palette of nuances. From sporting events to beauty contests at school, the filmmakers explore social and community rituals, and how gender and identity are portrayed as new stories are created.

PAHOKEE is the powerful portrait of a forgotten America, absent from the current political discourse.

 

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more.

  1. Click the link above to purchase your ticket to stream.
  2. Select “Rent $18.00” in the top-right corner of the screen.
  3. Starting May 1st, you may enter promo code athena to reduce the price from $18 to $12 and apply part of your rental fee towards benefiting the theater.
  4. Enter payment info and enjoy the show.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

 

 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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Running Time: 112 min112 MIN
Not Rated
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Pahokee is also a worthwhile reminder for those who haven't faced similar challenges that things rarely come easy for those from modest circumstances.

Justin Lowe
Hollywood Reporter
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THE TIMES OF BILL CUNNINGHAM: Last Day Thursday, May 28th

Watch Trailer Director: Mark Bozek II

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent THE TIMES OF BILL CUNNINGHAM you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Click here to purchase your ticket to stream THE TIMES OF BILL CUNNINGHAM.

 

About the film

Told in Bill Cunningham’s own words from a recently unearthed six-hour 1994 interview, the iconic street photographer and fashion historian chronicles, in his customarily cheerful and plainspoken manner, moonlighting as a milliner in France during the Korean War, his unique relationship with First Lady Jackie Kennedy, his four decades at The New York Times and his democratic view of fashion and society. Narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker, The Times of Bill Cunningham features incredible photographs chosen from over 3 million previously unpublicized images and documents from Cunningham.

 

How to stream

For $10, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more .

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

 

 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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Running Time: 74 min74 MIN
Not Rated
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If you have a subject as delightful and forthcoming as the self-invented shutterbug, not to mention decades' worth of fabulous footage and photographic records of high and low fashion, you really can't have too much of a good thing.

David Rooney
Hollywood Reporter
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Virtual Cinema Screenings

 

 

Dear Athena Supporters,

We have an exciting announcement! Our team has curated newly-released films for you, available to stream online from home.

When you rent one of these films you are not only supporting independent film but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Please see FAQs about the Virtual Cinema Screenings below.

Thank you again and enjoy the show!

 

Virtual Screenings FAQ

 

What are virtual cinema screenings? Virtual cinema screenings are ticketed screenings of films unavailable on any other VOD platform that viewers can enjoy from the privacy of their own home.  Once a customer purchases a ticket they will receive access to a temporary film rental.

How can viewers enjoy a virtual screening? Audiences can buy tickets through their local art house cinema.

How does this support independent theaters? Virtual screenings allow theaters to keep programming films, even when their doors are closed. A portion of each ticket sale will go directly to the buyer’s local art house cinema.

I just purchased the film but I don’t see how to watch it? First, check your email and make sure your purchase went through. The email you were sent should have a link for you to access the film.

I’m an Athena Cinema member. Do you offer member pricing? Unfortunately, due to our arrangements with distributors, we aren’t able to offer member pricing for these films.

Can I use Athena Cinema gift cards for virtual screenings? Unfortunately, that’s not an option at the moment. You’ll be able to use them in-person for our showings at the theater.

If you aren’t able to find the answer to your question here or through the screening link, please reach out to us at athenacinema@ohio.edu. We appreciate your patience as we start this new initiative.

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Dear Friends,

We are all thinking about the future. How long will this go on? Will life go back to “normal”—or will there be a new normal?

Predictably, we are seeing a deluge of opinion pieces signaling the demise of the theatrical experience. All this home viewing, Netflix-watching and straight-to-streaming distribution is surely the end of movie theaters. Never mind the fact that we’ve been seeing that same story for decades, even though theater attendance has remained relatively stable since 1964 (the only significant dip in theater attendance was the introduction of the television from 1949-1964).  But since 1964 we’ve seen the introduction of cable TV, VCRs and DVD players, the digital conversion from 35 mm, the advent of streaming services and shorter theatrical windows—oh, and Moviepass. (Remember that?!). Each change in technology has been the harbinger of doom, yet the curtain rises on the other side.

I am convinced that there is one reason theaters survive, and more than that, thrive (we had three full-capacity events in our largest theater in the month before the pandemic). That reason is you. Our tremendous community. Our beloved regulars. How we miss you!

I was moved to tears by this love letter to the movies by Manohla Dargis and I wanted to share it. It reminded me how deeply I feel tied to the physical space of the Athena. And how much I treasure the ability to watch movies with you here.

We are being forced to quickly adapt or else face an uncertain future. Should we encourage patrons to stream art house content, even try to move to a new model where we get a cut of the “ticket” you buy to stream a film? Do we “go dark” and wait it out?

I am sifting through a lot of new and daily emerging possibilities and like all of us, trying to make the best decisions for our little corner of the world. I am not sure what the answers are but I do know that our team here is scrappy, tenacious and wildly committed. We are specialists at adapting to change and we remain focused. The Athena will be here on the other side of this thing.

I hope to see you at the movies.

Stay tuned and stay healthy,

 

Alexandra Kamody

Director, Athena Cinema

 

 

 

 

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